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Comparison of major peanut allergens Ara h 1, Ara h 2 and Ara h 3 between peanut cultivars from Côte d’Ivoire and the USA using SDS PAGE and Western Blots Chiayé Claire Antoinette Yapo-Crezoit1, Antony Ananga2,Francis Yapo 3, Koffi Konan4, Hortense Dodo 4 1
Laboratory of Immunology. Abidjan ,Institut Pasteur of Côte d’Ivoire. 2 Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, Florida, United States. 3 Laboratory of Biochimistry. University of Félix Houphouët Boigny. Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. 4 Ingatey Gen LLC, Elizabeth City, North Carolina, USA.
Summary: Peanut is commonly consumed in many forms. The ubiquitous presence of peanut in processed food is responsible for an increasing number of allergic reactions due to accidental ingestion. The prevalence of peanut allergy seems to be underestimated in the African population possibly because of the lack of testing and clinical documentation. In this study, a comparison was made between raw and roasted peanut seeds from cultivars of Côte d’Ivoire (ARA-CI) and raw peanut seeds from the cultivar Georgia Green, grown commercially in the USA. The main objective of this study was to identify the protein profile of peanut seeds from Côte d’Ivoire and compare it with the molecular specificities of major allergens of Georgia green seeds from the USA using a combination of two methods, SDS PAGE and Western blots. Peanut protein profiles via SDS PAGE, coupled with Western blots were carried out on two collections of peanut seeds. In the raw peanut seed extracts from Côte d’Ivoire, are visible fingerprints of the major allergenic proteins Ara h 1(63.5 kDa),Ara h 2(17, 20 kDa), and Ara h 3(25,36, 40 and 44 kDa) and an allergenic bands of Ara h 3 of about 36kDa.This provides evidence of the presence of the major allergens in peanut from Côte d’Ivoire, this, a presumption of a high allergenic potency peanut despite a low prevalence of peanut allergy in the country. The presence of a strongly expressed 30 kDa protein, potentially corresponding to a component of Ara h 3 in the roasted sample means that cooking processes could increase the allergenic potency of peanut. This study makes it possible to identify molecular specificity in peanut from Côte d’Ivoire for the development of local screening test adapted to the environment. Keywords: peanuts, allergy, allergen, Ara h 1, Ara h 2 and Ara h 3, SDS-PAGE, Western blot, Côte d’Ivoire
I. Introduction The global prevalence of allergy is reported to be in the range of 20–30% of the world’s population for different forms of allergic diseases, and this global prevalence seems to have increased in the last 3 decades [1,2]. Peanuts are known to be one of the most allergenic food, often responsible for severe clinical allergic reactions through hypersensitivity mechanism with variable clinical signs in atopic subjects[3]. In the United States, as many as 15 million people (9 million adults and nearly 6 million children) have food allergies with an estimated prevalence of 0.6-1.3% of peanut allergy among the U.S. population [4,5,6,7,8].Self-reported prevalence of allergy to common foods in Europe ranged from 0.1 to 6.0%. Prevalence of peanut allergy with 0.2% in the general European population was found to be more common among older children[9].In a 2010,Swedish study of peanut allergy in children, the authors estimated the prevalence of clinical peanut allergy among a sensitized population to be 22.4% [10].In France, the prevalence of peanut allergy is estimated at 1% among children aged six to ten years, and 0.2% after the age of 11 years. The prevalence of peanut allergy in the general French population was estimated between 1 and 2.5%. In Africa, despite the limited information on allergy and allergens, most of the allergy cases in rural areas are contact allergies that may lead to mild dermatitis and pruritus. Further, people living in grasslands, in a traditional setting, with traditional dietary practices rarely suffer from allergic diseases [11,12]. Food allergy seems to be uncommon in the general population, but more frequently occurring in children (up to8%) compared with adults (2%). About 35% of children with severe eczema experience food allergy involving IgE antibodies,and 6% of children with asthma experience food induced wheezing[13,14.] .In Togo, food sensitization to trophallergens interested 36.70% of children with 19% of peanut sensitization[15]. In Côte d’Ivoire the prevalence of peanut allergy was estimated at 9.09% [16]. In Senegal, clinical cases revealed that allergic diseases seem to be on the rise. However, in a hundreds of patients, oral food challenges indicated three patients were allergic to peanut; a number which usually would not exceed two17. In Ghana, a skin prick test (SPT) for food (mango, banana, orange, papaya, pineapple, apple and peanut) allergy was conducted on a cohort of 1695 DOI: 10.9790/3008-1201013136
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